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Salman Rushdie was to attend the recent literary festival at Jaipur. Mr. Rushdie is a Moslem and an Indian. He also is a great writer who has written a string of books , which have been critically acclaimed. He has also written the Satanic Verses which was banned in India by Rajiv Gandhi to appease the minority community.
The Congress as a party has a history of appeasement of the minorities and thus thought to score an electoral point by derailing the effort of Rushdie to attend the literary festival at Jaipur. The Rajasthan Chief Minister made some preposterous claims which were all lies. He stated that most people in India were not keen that Rushdie should Visit India. This is evident when people in India welcomed Rushdie the last time he came to Mumbai. This time many people and writers were looking forward to the visit of Rushdie.
Actually the Indian people respect Rushdie as a writer and even minority community writers had welcomed the participation of Rushdie in the meet. But the Government played a trick on Rushdie. The Rajasthan police at the behest of the center and the state Government( both ruled by the Congress Party) issued an advisory to Rushdie not to come as paid assassains were waiting for him.
In real terms no killer was waiting for Rushdie and this was a fiction created by the Congress government. It is a sad day when freedom to travel and take part in literary festivals is made a political issue. This the Congress government has done hoping it will pay dividend in the coming UP elections. Unfortunately the Congress will soon find that such devious acts do not translate into votes.
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